Disaster Recovery Planning and Business Continuity Services
To ensure business continuity, a comprehensive IT disaster recovery plan is a critical requirement for effective IT governance. Once viewed as an IT insurance policy, disaster recovery is receiving significant attention not only in support of compliance, but also as a real competitive advantage.
Disaster Recovery consists of coping with and recovering from an IT crisis that moves work to an alternative system in a non-routine way. A top-down approach to successful disaster recovery planning begins with a Business Impact Analysis (BIA). A business impact analysis enumerates and prioritizes business-critical disaster recovery services, establishing Recovery Time (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) against which we can create and measure the Disaster Recovery plan.
Far beyond a simple offsite backup and recovery plan, a thorough IT Disaster Recovery Plan ensures Business Continuity by addressing the data, hardware, software, personnel, facilities, and recovery procedures necessary for a business to restore critical IT services in the event of natural or man-made disaster.
Benefits of Consonus Disaster Recovery Planning
An essential part of an organization’s IT disaster recovery plan, a Consonus Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is an information-gathering exercise designed to methodically identify the processes performed by an organization, the resources required to support each process performed, and the possibilities and impact of process failures on business operations. The Consonus BIA provides the foundation for IT architecture development and selecting a business continuity planning strategy that will allow the organization to continue to perform critical processes in the event of a disruption.
The Consonus Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and IT Risk Assessment
- Identifies critical business processes and IT disaster recovery services
- Determines Business Case & requirements for business continuity management
- Assesses risk, determines applicable disaster scenarios
A BIA is likely to identify costs linked to failures, such as loss of cash flow, replacement of equipment, salaries paid to catch up with a backlog of work, loss of profits, and so on. A BIA report quantifies the importance of business components and suggests appropriate fund allocation for measures to protect them. The possibilities of failures are likely to be assessed in terms of their impacts on safety, finances, marketing, legal compliance, and quality assurance.
